St. Bridget School Angel Garden gets gift

LOVES PARK — St. Bridget School of Loves Park received a $1,000 donation at the Winnebago County Soil and Water Conservation District annual meeting and awards banquet last month.

The money was given to the school by Dwayne Proctor and Tessa Chadwick who bid on a rain barrel that St. Bridget students designed as part of a contest.

The design was based on a drawing by fourth-grader Analese Vondrak and painted by students in Kathy Toldo and Christine Dunker’s fourth grade classes.

Protcor and Chadwick bid on the rain barrel during a live auction and donated both the $1,000 and the rain barrel to the school. The barrel will be used in the school’s Angel Garden, which supplies more than 1,000 pounds of fresh produce each year to the parish’s food pantry.

St. Bridget students will paint another rain barrel and auction it at the school’s annual Shamrock Shuffle fundraising dinner March 22.

Tickets for the event are available at St. Bridget School or by calling 815-633-8255.